Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 About Digital Performer and Your Mac -- What Is a DAW? -- Nonlinear Editing -- Host- and Non-Host-Based Systems -- Expansion Cards -- MIDI Interfaces -- Audio Interfaces -- Digital Performer 6 Requirements -- The Mac and Your DP System -- Hard Drives -- Disk Maintenance -- SuperDrives -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Setting Up Digital Performer 6 -- Installing Digital Performer 6 -- Installing Audio Hardware Drivers -- Installing Core MIDI Drivers -- Loading Digital Performer 6 on Your System -- Installing Third-Party Plug-Ins -- Launching Digital Performer for the First Time -- Audio Configuration -- Audio System: Choosing MAS, DAE, or MIDI Only -- The Configure Hardware Driver Window -- The Configure Studio Settings Window -- The Input Monitoring Mode Window -- The Bundles Window -- MIDI Configuration -- The Audio MIDI Setup Utility (AMS) -- Synchronization -- Syncing DP -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Navigating Digital Performer 6 -- The Consolidated Window -- Control Panel -- Transport -- Counter -- Status Strip with Tempo Control -- Tracks Window -- Information Bar -- Tracks List -- The Tracks Overview Section -- The Sequence Editor -- Sequence Editor Mini-Menu -- Track Settings Panel -- Graphic Editing -- Grids, Time Rulers, and Zooming -- The Mixing Board -- Window Target Menu and Mini-Menu -- Track Strips -- Soundbites Window -- The Soundbites Mini-Menu -- List -- The Sound File Information Window -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Setting Up a New Project -- Project Basics -- The Default Workspace -- Setting the Sample Rate -- Tracks in Digital Performer -- Deleting Tracks -- Adding Tracks -- Renaming Tracks -- Moving Tracks -- Track Folders -- Audio Tracks and Internal Busses -- Input and Output Assignments for Audio and Aux Tracks -- Audio and Aux Track I/O -- MIDI Track I/O -- Monitoring External MIDI Devices.

Monitoring MAS/AU Instruments -- Monitoring ReWire Instruments -- Tempo and Meter -- Setting the Tempo -- Setting the Meter -- Setting Up a Click -- Creating a Click Default -- Pattern Clicks (the Ultimate in Clicks) -- Defining the Countoff -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Project Management: Part 1 -- The Digital Performer Project -- Opening an Existing Project -- Opening Other File Types -- Saving Your Project -- The Save Command -- The Save As Command -- Save As Template -- Standard MIDI Files -- OMF Interchange and AAF Interchange Files -- Final Cut Pro XML Interchange -- Customizing Your Workspace -- The Consolidated Window -- The Preferences and Settings Command -- Window Sets -- Track Colors -- The Commands Window -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Project Management: Part 2 -- The Undo History -- The Project Undo History -- Branching -- Managing the Undo History Windows -- Audio File Undo History Windows -- Polar Undo History Window -- Managing Audio Files and Soundbites -- Changing the Location of Audio Files and Soundbites -- Organizing Audio Files and Soundbites into Folders -- Renaming Existing Audio Files or Soundbites -- Deleting Audio Files and Soundbites -- "Removing" Audio Files and Soundbites -- Compacting an Audio File -- Compacting a Project -- Locating Missing Audio Files or Soundbites -- Backup and Project Archival -- Backups -- Archiving -- External Hard Drives -- CD-R versus DVD-R -- Rewritable Media -- USB Flash Drives -- Software Solutions -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Recording Audio -- Input Assignments and the Audio Assignments Window -- Monitoring Input Signals -- Audio Patch Thru -- Monitoring with External Mixers -- Direct Hardware Playthrough -- Setting Input Levels -- Arming a Track -- Audio Monitor Window -- The Meter Bridge Window -- DP's Trim Plug-In -- Recording Audio -- Recording and Managing Takes -- Punching In and Out.

Overdub Record Mode -- Cycle Record Mode -- Recording with Effects -- Importing Audio -- Sound File Locations -- Automatic Conversions Preferences -- The Import Audio Command versus Drag and Drop -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Recording MIDI -- MIDI-Related Windows and Commands -- The MIDI Monitor Window -- The Set Input Filter Command -- The Input Quantize Command -- MIDI Device Groups -- MIDI Patch Lists -- Recording MIDI -- Summary -- Chapter 9 MIDI: The Region Menu, Plug-Ins, and Virtual Instruments -- Region Menu Commands -- Region Commands Preferences and Settings -- The Transpose Command -- The Quantize Command -- The Change Velocity Command -- The Split Notes Command -- MIDI Effects Plug-Ins -- Processing with the Region Menu's MIDI Effects Plug-Ins -- Inserting Real-Time MIDI Plug-Ins -- Virtual Instrument Plug-Ins -- Pre-Rendered Instrument Tracks (MOTU's Pre-Gen) -- Assigned Instrument Track -- Unassigned Instrument Tracks -- Instrument Inserts and the Mixing Board -- The Freeze Selected Tracks Command -- Summary -- Chapter 10 Editing -- The Tool Palette -- The Time Formats Window, Time Ruler, and Edit Grid -- The Time Formats Window -- The Time Ruler -- The Edit Grid -- The View Filters -- Zooming -- Selecting and Moving -- Selecting and Moving Audio -- Selecting and Moving MIDI Notes -- Basic Edit Commands -- The Erase Command -- The Copy, Cut, Paste, Repeat, and Merge Commands -- Editing Audio in the Sequence Editor -- Edge Editing Soundbites -- Soundbite Editing Shortcuts -- Fades and Crossfades -- MIDI Editing in the Graphic Editor -- Inserting, Removing, and Modifying Notes in the Note Grid -- The Median Strip and Continuous Data Grid -- The Event List -- Event List Basics -- Editing the Parameter of an Event -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Arranging -- The Conductor Track -- Modify Conductor Track Menu -- Editing Conductor Track Data -- Tempo.

Tempo Sources and the Tempo Control Menu -- Adjusting Tempo -- Audio Menu Tempo Commands -- Meter -- The Change Meter Command -- Applying and Editing Meter Changes -- Partial Measures -- Key -- The Change Key Command -- Transposing Audio and MIDI Data -- Chunks -- Sequences -- The Chunks Window -- Controlling Chunks -- Songs -- Looping -- Inserting a Loop Using the Region Menu -- Inserting a Loop in the Event List -- The Loop Tool -- Clipping Windows -- Clipping Data Icons -- Creating, Opening, and Managing Clippings -- Where Clippings Are Stored -- Adding Audio and MIDI Data -- Saving Plug-In Settings -- Documents, Folders, and URLs -- Markers -- Marker Basics -- Creating Markers on the Fly -- Quantizing Markers -- Recalling Markers -- Snapping and Shifting Data to a Marker Location -- Selecting with Markers -- Markers in Post-Production Work -- Summary -- Chapter 12 Mixing -- Mixing Board Setup -- Showing and Hiding Track Strip Sections -- The Board Layout Feature -- Track Groups -- Alternate Mixes with Mix Mode -- Inserts and Plug-Ins -- Signal Flow -- Pre-/Post-Fader Divider -- Dynamic versus Time-Based Effects -- Aux Tracks and Sends -- Send and Returns -- Submixing -- Automation -- Summary -- Chapter 13 Processing and Mastering -- Audio Processing -- Automatic Delay Compensation -- Real-Time Effects -- File-Based Processing -- The Background Processing Window -- The Audio Performance Window -- Plug-In Formats -- The Effects Window -- Saving and Recalling Effect Presets -- Pitch-Shifting Audio -- Time-Stretching Audio -- Mastering -- The Master Fader -- Mastering in DP -- Processing Your Final Mix -- Bouncing to Disk -- Exporting Audio -- Exporting and Bouncing to the MP3 Format -- Summary -- Chapter 14 Music Notation -- The QuickScribe Editor -- Customizing the Appearance of a Score -- Customizing the Appearance of an Individual Track.

Working with Measures -- Inserting Key, Meter, and Tempo Changes -- Inserting Dynamic Symbols -- Printing -- Summary -- Chapter 15 Scoring to Picture -- Music Scoring -- Movie Window -- Cue Sheets -- Viewing Film Cues -- Hit Points -- Using Hit Points to Find Tempos -- Film Scoring Events -- Summary -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I-J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W-X -- Y-Z.